Magento – New customer address attributes not saving

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I've created 2 new customer attributes. These attributes show in the admin under "Customers > Attributes > Manage Customer Address Attributes".

I've overwritten the registration form (register.phtml) to display form fields matching these attributes. When I debug through the registration process, I see that Mage_Customer_Model_Form::getAttributes does not include my new attributes.

Because of this (I think), my new attributes are not being saved in the database. What step am I missing to make the registration form save my new attributes?

Best Answer

Add the attribute to the form-filter

To save new attributes in an EAV table through a form, you need to set the used_on_forms setting, like this in a setup file

$oAttribute = Mage::getSingleton('eav/config')->getAttribute(
     'customer', 'agb'
);
$oAttribute->setData('used_in_forms', array('adminhtml_customer', 'customer_account_create'));

There are a lot more forms, like customer_account_edit.

Be careful, this example is from a customer attribute, not customer address!

A few form codes:

SELECT DISTINCT form_code FROM `customer_form_attribute` WHERE 1

adminhtml_checkout
adminhtml_customer
adminhtml_customer_address
checkout_register
customer_account_create
customer_account_edit
customer_address_edit
customer_register_address

I'm not sure whether I got all, maybe there are some, which are not used but mentioned in the code.

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Magento – Add Custom Attribute to Customer Registration Form

To allow to publish an attribute in the register form and some others form page, you have to set that the attribute(s) is/are available to those forms.

To do that here is a sample code to put in your sql setup below. You can find the rest of the code I used for my Magento Username module on my github account.

/* @var $installer Diglin_Username_Model_Entity_Setup */
$installer = $this;

/* @var $eavConfig Mage_Eav_Model_Config */
$eavConfig = Mage::getSingleton('eav/config');

$store = Mage::app()->getStore(Mage_Core_Model_App::ADMIN_STORE_ID);

$attributes = $installer->getAdditionalAttributes();

foreach ($attributes as $attributeCode => $data) {
    $installer->addAttribute('customer', $attributeCode, $data);

    $attribute = $eavConfig->getAttribute('customer', $attributeCode);
    $attribute->setWebsite( (($store->getWebsite()) ? $store->getWebsite() : 0));

    if (false === ($attribute->getIsSystem() == 1 && $attribute->getIsVisible() == 0)) {
        $usedInForms = array(
            'customer_account_create',
            'customer_account_edit',
            'checkout_register',
        );
        if (!empty($data['adminhtml_only'])) {
            $usedInForms = array('adminhtml_customer');
        } else {
            $usedInForms[] = 'adminhtml_customer';
        }
        if (!empty($data['adminhtml_checkout'])) {
            $usedInForms[] = 'adminhtml_checkout';
        }

        $attribute->setData('used_in_forms', $usedInForms);
    }
    $attribute->save();
}

Magento – Custom customer attribute not processing on onepage checkout registration form

When you say this is Customer attribute, then this will get the values of logged in customer only, if this what you want, you should use the following code in onepage checkout files:

$this->getQuote()->getCustomer()->getJobTitle();

This code will first get the customer from the quote then will get the related value for Job title. Use the name of the input field as:

<input type="text" name="billing[job_title]" id="job_title" value="<?php echo $this->escapeHtml($this->getQuote()->getCustomer()->getJobTitle()) ?>" title="<?php echo $this->__('Job Title') ?>" class="input-text required-entry" />

and in the config.xml, add the following code in global tag:

<fieldsets>
    <checkout_onepage_billing>
       <job_title>
          <to_customer>*</to_customer>
       </job_title>
    </checkout_onepage_billing>
 </fieldsets>

not tested but the fieldsets part should do the job.

Best Answer

Add the attribute to the form-filter

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